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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23373)	12/11/2009 11:21:12 AM
From: Cage Rattler	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 103300

How true. IMHO, the GOP should target the deviant Republicans within their own ranks, such as Maine's Olympia Snow and, to a lesser extent, Susan Collins. Both appear more sympathetic towards liberal-Democrat values than those of their Republican constituents -- neither of them can be relied upon to support GOP or conservative objectives. Both are near worthless.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23373)	12/11/2009 4:54:56 PM
From: Wayners	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I'm not so sure about that. Sure many will but many are really angry about their own economic situations and the continuation and increase in Afghnistan. I think Obamaturd is a one termer...or one turder.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23373)	12/11/2009 9:52:57 PM
From: PROLIFE	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

and the republicans will vote for the same old republicans also...I still say vote them ALL out. Hard to find folks that WANT TO WORK and not just sit up there on their fat asses and think they are entitled.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23373)	12/12/2009 12:53:53 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

U.S. froze $2 bln held for Iran in Citibank-reportBY Reuters — 01:06 AM ET 12/12/2009 WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. court last year secretly froze more than $2 billion allegedly held for Iran in Citigroup Inc (C Loading... ) accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing legal documents. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, acting in part on information provided by the U.S. Treasury Department, ordered Citibank to freeze the money in June 2008, the newspaper said. The money is in accounts held by Luxembourg's Clearstream Banking AG [CLEA.UL], a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG (DBOEF Loading... ), the newspaper said. Citibank, Clearstream and the Iranian government declined to comment, the Journal said. Clearstream has denied holding funds for Iran according to court documents cited by the newspaper, and is fighting to get the funds released. U.S. firms are forbidden from doing business with Iran. There is no indication Citibank knew the funds could have belonged to Iran, the newspaper said. The money is part of a battle between the families of U.S. Marines killed or injured in a 1983 bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that a U.S. court ruled was organized by Iran. In 2007, a judge ordered Tehran to pay the victims' families $2.7 billion in compensation. Lawyers for the families seeking compensation subpoenaed the Treasury Department to find information about Iranian assets held in the United States, which led to a secret court order to freeze Clearstream's accounts at Citibank, the newspaper said. "I was stunned when this money popped up in New York," Steven Perles, a lawyer representing the victims' families, told the Journal. The case comes as Obama administration weighs whether to pursue more sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. [ID:nGEE5BA0FL] (Reporting by Roberta Rampton)